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A hunter pet can have different abilities, depending on its pet family. Each pet family, or beast type, has one single special skill and belongs to one of the three pet classes Cunning/Ferocity/Tenacity, each of which gives access to a certain pet talent tree. In the pet talent tree the hunter can assign talent points for skills. Some are active combat abilities, used to improve combat effectiveness, or passive abilities.

A hunter can specialize his or her pets, to a large degree, by the choice of pet family, pet class, and talent build, for example to make a pet a more effective tank or a damage-dealer.

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Pet Skill Calculators

Just like the many Talent Build Calculators out there for classes, there are a few Hunter Pet Skill Calculators to help you plan how to spend your pets training points and minimize leftover unusable points.

These calculators are all third-party, not Blizzard's, and therefore can fall out of date with content patches. Current as of October 22, 2008:

Protects a friendly target from critical strikes, making attacks againsta that target unable to be critical strikes, but 20% of all damage taken by that target is also taken by the pet. lasts 12 seconds.